At 01:16 PM 11/3/00 -0600, David Douthitt wrote:
...
>Unless I'm mistaken, the FTP protocol has nothing whatsoever to do
>with mime-types, et al - only "ascii" or "bin" - and this only to do
>carriage-return conversions.
>
>Mime-types, I believe, are only present in HTTP downloads, which is
>why web-servers have to be configured with the proper mime-types for
>*.ima or *.pac or whatever. When you make a FTP download, you are
>communicating with an FTP server, not an HTTP server (web server).
>You might be using Netscape or IE, but it is acting as a FTP client,
>not a HTTP client (web browser) - so FTP from anywhere should be okay.
Well ... although we've been talking about ftp, when I check the URL I was
actually offered for downloads, it is an http:// URL. Specifically, I went
to URL
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=13751&release_id=14996
(which is the link from the "download" choices on
http://sourceforge.net/projects/leaf/). All the individual download choices
there are http:// links, not ftp:// links.
Since this download option is offered by Sourceforge, and since we are using
it, we should use it in a way that works for users. So my concerns about
extensions and mime-types do at least apply to this option.
If I go to the actual anonynous ftp directory,
ftp://leaf.sourceforge.net/pub/leaf/, I can't even get a directory listing,
so I have no way to test ftp downloads. I'll keep trying, and if it ever
responds, I'll let you know what I find.
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